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Cobalt_Kid

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Looks like we get to pay for Harper to ride around in a CFs jet that's a flying billboard for the conservative party.

Stephen Harper's jet gets red, white and blue makeover - Politics - CBC News

$50,000 dollars spent so Harper can advertise which party he's from.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is blurring the lines between government money and party money with the new paint job on his plane, according to NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

The military Airbus jet that the prime minister travels abroad on got a controversial makeover that Mulcair said is "patterned on the Conservative Party."

A photo of the newly painted plane is on the Department of National Defence's website. Harper will be flying on the now red, white and blue plane when he takes off for Europe on Tuesday. The jet used to be a drab grey colour.

The prime minister's Canadian Forces Airbus CC-150 Polaris for years has been painted a drab grey according to military rules, along with the official Canada markings. (Chris Wattie/Canadian Press)
The plane, a CC-150 Polaris, got the paint job as part of the maintenance it undergoes every six years. The new design cost an extra $50,000 according to Harper's director of communications, Andrew MacDougall.
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The plane may no longer be suitable for use in other duties, something that motivated Peter MacKay to deny this change earlier.

The Prime Minister's Office started asking for the more colourful paint job back in 2009 and the requests were repeatedly rebuffed by Defence Minister Peter MacKay and his department. In emails obtained by The Canadian Press, MacKay makes it clear that he thinks the plane should stay grey. He says that is the appropriate colour scheme given that the plane is a military plane that transports personnel and equipment into operational areas.

The decision "to have an Airbus permanently configured for VIP use in a colour other than the standard grey would have an impact both financially and on operations, as essentially it would leave you with one less air resource," one military officer wrote about the plane in an email.
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Harper's hubris is starting to get away from him I think.
 
Durry

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Plane looks great with the new colors!!

That grey color was an awful color!

Given that under Harper, Canada has the best financial situation in the G8, now Canada can show it has some class with a good looking plane!!
 
B00Mer

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Durry said:
Plane looks great with the new colors!!

That grey color was an awful color!

Given that under Harper, Canada has the best financial situation in the G8, now Canada can show it has some class with a good looking plane!!
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exactly...


 
Goober

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Durry said:
Plane looks great with the new colors!!

That grey color was an awful color!

Given that under Harper, Canada has the best financial situation in the G8, now Canada can show it has some class with a good looking plane!!
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Best check your political records- The Govt was quite close to loosening the restraints on Canadian banks around 2005.
Very close. Then we would have been fuked.
 
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